Editing Mausolus (section)

== Early life ==

Mausolus was the eldest son of [[Hecatomnus]], a native Carian who became the [[satrap]] of Caria shortly after [[Tissaphernes]] died, {{circa|395|392}} BCE.<ref name="Hornblower 1982" /> Mausolus succeeded his father upon Hecatomnus' death in 377 BCE.<ref name="Diod. 16.36.2" /><ref name="Hornblower 1982" /> The two may have shared the rule of Caria in the early 370s BCE, though, shortly before the death of Hecatomnus.<ref name="Carney (2005)" /> Their close relationship is illustrated in the family scenes from the sarcophagus of [[Hecatomnus' Tomb|the tomb of Hecatomnus and Aba]].<ref name="Diler 2021">{{cite book |last=Diler |first=Adnan |editor-last1=Pedersen |editor-first1=Poul |editor-last2=Poulsen |editor-first2=Birte |editor-last3=Lund |editor-first3=John |title=Karia and the Dodekanese: Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean. Vol. I: Late Classical to Early Hellenistic |date=2021 |publisher=Oxbow |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-78925-511-9 |pages=87–106 |chapter=Hekatomneion in Mylasa: preliminary studies on the cult |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/48875811}}</ref> They were also depicted alongside one another in a statue group from [[Caunos]].<ref name="Işık Marek 2005">{{cite book |last1=Işık |first1=Cengiz |last2=Marek |first2=Christian |editor-last1=Pedersen |editor-first1=Brandt |editor-last2=Gassner |editor-first2=Verene |editor-last3=Landstätter |editor-first3=Sabina |title=Synergia: Festschrift für Friedrich Krinzinger II. |date=2005 |publisher=Phoibos |location=Wien |pages=239–247 |chapter=Die Basen der Hekatomniden in Kaunos-Kbid}}</ref> Whether Mausolus held any real or ceremonial office before the period of his reign proper, however, is speculative.<ref name="Hornblower 1982" /><ref name="Carney (2005)" />